New Criticism New Criticism Affective fallacy is a literary term used to assert that the meaning of a literary work is not dependent on its effects on the reader, especially referring to emotional effects. The term was coined by W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley as a principle of New Criticism. ...more on Wikipedia about "Affective fallacy"
Cleanth Brooks ( 1906- 1994) was an influential American literary critic. He was eminent among the New Critics of the mid- twentieth century, and is still remembered as an extremely attentive reader. Brooks described inattentive, summary reading of poetry with a coined phrase which is still popular, "the Heresy of Paraphrase." ...more on Wikipedia about "Cleanth Brooks"
Frank Raymond Leavis ( July 14, 1895 - April 14, 1978) was an influential British literary critic of the early-to-mid- twentieth century. He taught and studied for nearly his entire life at Downing College, Cambridge. ...more on Wikipedia about "F. R. Leavis"
Ivor Armstrong Richards ( February 26, 1893- 1979) was an influential literary critic and rhetorician. His books, especially The Meaning of Meaning, Principles of Literary Criticism, Practical Criticism, and The Philosophy of Rhetoric, were among the founding documents of the New Criticism, and most of the eminent New Critics were Richards's students. Since the New Criticism, at least in English-speaking countries, is often thought of as the beginning of modern literary criticism, Richards is one of the founders of the contemporary study of literature in English. ...more on Wikipedia about "I. A. Richards"
Intentional fallacy is a literary term that asserts that the meaning intended by the author of a literary work is not the only, and perhaps not the most important, meaning of the piece. The term was first used by W.K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley in their essay The Intentional Fallacy. The notion of author's intention has become central to modern literary criticism, and the explanation of intentional fallacy is an important part of what is known as the New Criticism. Thus this term means "a fallacy about intention" and not "committing a fallacy on purpose". Their view is similar to the one made famous by Roland Barthes in his essay The Death of the Author. ...more on Wikipedia about "Intentional fallacy"
Herbert Marshall McLuhan ( July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, professor of English literature, literary critic, and communications theorist, who is one of the founders of the study of media ecology and is today an honorary guru among technophiles. ...more on Wikipedia about "Marshall McLuhan"
Monroe Curtis Beardsley ( 1915- 1985) was an American philosopher of aesthetics. He is best known for two essays written with W.K. Wimsatt, "The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy," which were key texts of the New Critics in literary criticism; he also wrote an introductory text on aesthetics and edited a well-regarded survey anthology of philosophy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Monroe Beardsley"
New Criticism was the dominant trend in English and American literary criticism of the early twentieth century, from the 1920s to the early 1960s. Its adherents were emphatic in their advocacy of close reading and attention to texts themselves, and their rejection of criticism based on extra-textual sources, especially biography. At their best, New Critical readings were brilliant, articulately argued, and broad in scope, but sometimes they were idiosyncratic and moralistic. ...more on Wikipedia about "New Criticism"
Robert Penn Warren ( April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989) was an American poet and novelist. ...more on Wikipedia about "Robert Penn Warren"
Thomas Stearns Eliot, OM ( September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was an American-born poet, dramatist, and literary critic, whose works, such as The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land and Four Quartets, are considered major achievements of twentieth century Modernist poetry. ...more on Wikipedia about "T. S. Eliot"
Sir William Empson ( 1906- 1984) was an English poet and literary critic, and former head of the English department at the University of Sheffield, sometimes reckoned the greatest English literary critic after Samuel Johnson and William Hazlitt and fitting heir to their mode of witty, fiercely heterodox and imaginatively rich criticism. Jonathan Bate has remarked that the three greatest English Literary critics of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries are, respectively, Johnson, Hazlitt and Empson, "not least because they are the funniest" - and, indeed, in the critical climate of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, when much scholarly activity appears rigorously controlled by doctrinnaire philosophical and critical ideologies, Empson's work is refreshing in its humanity, imagination, wit, and freestyle erudition. The scholar and critic Harold Bloom has suggested that the appropriate apprehension of literary criticism would be one that recognized it as a mode of wisdom literature: Empson's critical stance is, perhaps, best appreciated in this light. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Empson"
William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr. ( 1907– 1975) was an American literary critic, remembered as one of the influential formalists known as the " New Critics". He is best known for two essays written with Monroe Beardsley, "The Intentional Fallacy" and "The Affective Fallacy", which were important documents of the New Criticism. ...more on Wikipedia about "William Kurtz Wimsatt, Jr."
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